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The bereaved mother of the fallen hostage said that if she could meet the late Rabbi Sacks, she would ask him “if he had found Hersh yet.”
The pontiff will fly to Lebanon after three days in the Anatolian nation.
“It wasn’t just a celebratory dinner,” Rabbi Joshua Davidson, of Temple Emanu-El, told JNS. “It became an important demonstration of Jewish pride.”
The elimination from the Knesset of Israel’s Ra’am Party (it currently holds five seats), would likely be the most dramatic effect of a ban.
“Symbolically, it helps maintain good relations with the Jewish community and with Israel,” a former Federal Reserve Bank of New York vice president told JNS.
AJA recalled Pauline Hanson’s staunch support of the community after she got suspended for using the garment to advocate for banning it.
Prosecutors say the 19-year-old suspect targeted Jews in an ISIS-inspired attack that left a Spanish tourist gravely wounded.
“A person in this situation has nothing around them. All that’s left is to believe. That’s it. Faith. When you believe in something you have something to lean on,” said Segev Kalfon, who spent two years in captivity in the Strip.
Indonesia’s Nahdlatul Ulama gave its chairman three days to resign over inviting U.S. academic Peter Berkowitz to an event.
There are no signs yet that Iran has returned to enriching uranium, but it is cleaning up the sites damaged by Israel and reconstructing the infrastructure surrounding its nuclear program.
Rabbi Arthur Schneier, 95, who leads the Park East Synagogue in Manhattan, is a Holocaust survivor who saw his synagogue burn on Kristallnacht.
“It’s not just a display of the scrolls, which of course in and of themselves would be powerful,” but other “wow objects” leave viewers in awe, the museum’s director of exhibits told JNS.
